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      VOL . VII . No . 306 . ] SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 2 , 1856 . Price { S £ ^^» : ; Ig ^^

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      formation sooner . "No ! " says LordPalmebstok , " we will not throw the responsibility on JParlia-r raent ; " and the Muustersexp ' € ctaiit , T ^ lfcrKJ 4 ? S £ ! fe » se to aid the actual Miraster ^ in exclaidi ^ M ^ ' ^^^ - or tlie country , from any ikiaowfedge •' l ^^^ . ^( ffa ^|| are conducted . -. r .: " . " : ¦ ¦ . ? I' -. ¦ : ; tJ ' i '' X'S ; % 2 rf ?^ Manchester k degenerating" intdcrdjitpaeiF ^ a ^?^! elml ^ gjiiii ^ T . £ *» ght ^^^ is getti £ g * 4 ii « -Kajrqtel' t ^ SstoiXi for . tiie ~^ m& 5 j ^|^?; have some kind of soiree of a peculiar . fosnloii .

      lightened patriotism of the country , to continue paying war taxes , while Ministers ate compromising the war in a peace . Surely , some wag of a statesman , must , at the last moment , have put the wrong- draft of the speech into the Queen ' s hands ? The real speech , : ftf . co . urse , contains some-allusions to the truly great . subjects that the people anxiously ask tlie Crown and Government to-enlighten them upon . Suffice it just to mention the heads of that information ,

      with-WliEN the Norman kings found their Barons getting troublesome at a distance they called 3 h . em . up . to Winchester or elsewliere , in order thUt r they ! niights Yitit them under the screw of the loyal presence jand authority . When' JOH ^ f felt ; tlie ^ s trengthzof theJ 3 ai * ons he summpnedt ] iem . t 6 bjfe put Tinder tlie force of lying ^ When Charles the Se-^ conP could not muster face-to utter the pretexts for -asking money , he took to the device of reading the wyal speech ; and that great coup ha $ heen further improved by developing the forms of the House in both chambers , to a trellis wurk which fences

      against any pressure from without . Never , did session open with a better use of these defensive works—the speech , the etiquettes of administration , and the forms of Parliament . We all expected that when Parliament should meet , we should have some light thrown upon the progress of the war , the position of the Allied interests in Asia , our relations with France , the state of the Baltic , the progress of the negotiations , and the intended arrangements in the Congress of Paris . Idle

      folly I The royal-speech is a becoming rebuff for our impertinent expectation . It indeed goes beyond any that we have ever had for responding to public expectancy with a mockery of reply that tells nothing . It informs us of what we knew alreadyto wit , that Sevastopol lias been taken , and that there is to bo a conference at Paris , at which n treaty of peace will be negotiated ; the " preparations " for war continuing until tlie preliminaries be signed—not the operations . Practically , the armistice has commenced already .

      Then , the speech informs us of great boons for homo—some touching up of the Limited Liability Acts of last session , an improvement in the- Scotch Commercial Law , Law Reform , Suppression , of Local and Passing Dues upon Merchant Ships . ft Treaty with Chili ( hv facilitating the import o * vincgior ?) , and the Treaty with Sweden ( which sciouih likely to result only in the onooumgement of turnips ) . The one matter-of-fact information which wo get out of the speech is , that her Majksty ¦ ntoncls to npponl to " the mnnly spirit nnd

      enout which our interests are being disposed of while we remain , in the dark . These subjects , sit the least , are — Kars ; America 5 the actual conch ' tions by which the Western Powers aje resolved to Stand i Ji »< l at home , tlie lOQg , long < 3 claye < l Reform Bill , which Ministers have admitted to be necessary for giving to the people their just share of the suffrage ; and national education 5 besides such secondary subjects as abolition of Church-rates , railway reform , and administrative reform . Of these not a word . Some member of the Commons

      ought to move for a copy of the real Queen s Speech , if only to rescue tlic royal dignity from its false position before the public , in being made the instrument for publishing a solemn gibe , which meets the representatives of an anxious people with stale news . If the Speech told us nothing , Ministers did not

      tell us much more . Their systematic principle appeared to be to withhold ; and it is remarkable that the leaders of the Opposition connive in that convenient practice of ollicinl life—to withhold . What about Kars ? asU Members in both Houses . It shall be told by-and-by . Why Mas not America mentioned in the Speech ? For 110 want of respect , answered Lord Cl . vkendon and Lord Palmerston , but becanisc the correspondence is so bad thnt they thought it best to say na little as possible ubout it ; the Central American question , however , being referred on oursi « lo to arbitration . On all these things—in the suspension of the war with Russia , or tlie commencement of a vnv with America , — in the conclusion of a treaty of peace with the tdH'my , or tbo abrogation of a treaty with our Western all ) - —¦ Ministers promised to lay information before Psu'HunAont when tho mischief shall be dono . Mr . Horcuuuic wanted totrcttho

      iu-In other places , members of an extraordinary popular pretension meet theii constita-. ents openly . It is a stale taunt that at Manchester the meetings are held by some kind of exclusive admission ; but , although stale , the remark is true , and the speeches of the members are falling into a kind . of pattern . ' Mr . "Micjner Gibson annually makes , an" agreeable speech , " flattering his constituents with the sense that they , have a

      gentleman who is out of office voluntarily , because he will not join the set in office , whi ] e he makes damaging allusions to the office-holders ; damaging allusions to the war , yet adroitly contrives never to commit himself a l ' outrance against Whigs or war . Mr . Bright , too , works liis standing subjects—the impolicy , cost , and horrors of the war , and the impertinence and horrors of the press . To the tvagedy of the war indeed , he leads variety , by presenting it in the comic "vein , telling some capital anecdotes b ) r various hands , Sydney

      Smith , Robert Walpolu , and other Punch writers before their age . It is still true that thousands upon thousands of human beings have been sacrificed , — -that our war expenditure has probably exceeded si hundred millions , —and that we really have ns yet got v « jvy little for our money . Mr Bright ¦ up holds cotton polities as opposed to old Lord politics , but he confesses that he is ashamed

      of what he meets with in the press , \ T . t u ^ lg * S § ra in railway stations , where people njgst ds ^^^ n ^ Ratu- . ¦¦ t 3 . ^^¦• k ^ S- ' tn In short , Mr . Bright is not gilh . jjW ^ t ^^ r riir Kb . mu . mj Lyons is . WlfiA SW mfaufaa ! - 40 ft Hft \ t . * . £ - ' ' 1 ^ t- " • , 1 returns to his native place —ChrisJcimi ^ aiji ^ In ^ lJ-i ) - aliire—it is nfc ( c fov nil classes . ^ ift . ^' fc'ftra ^ jjlitta ^ M if lie belonged to one family tluWglfctt ^^ ttrrffi ^ e ' -j i " Kveryth ' m ^ he says ia the object Ofc ^ aJ ^ ' ^ jyi ^ . ££ *

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      " The one Idea wlaicn History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice ami one-sided views ; and , by settiiU asiS the distineti . on ¥ of Religion Country , arid Colour to treat tho whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object-the free development of our spiritual nature . —llunwukl ! s ( Xsnios . ° ¦ ° j > - ^^ i-ucucoaLveiojiaeni ,

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      REVIEW OFTHE WEEK- tage ObituaTy .......... „ 102 A Kingdom Sequestrated 109 De la Rive on Electricity 113 JSaval and MilitaryvNewa 102 Harriet Martineau ' s Proud honism 110 The Constitutioaal History of Jersey 111 The War 98 1 lie Komanco of " The Times" .... 102 Candidates and Consciences : or , a Latter-day Poetry " ^ Itt Se ' piS ^ S iSSiffftSluicui * :::::::::::::: i ° o ! Taieof » Trick no ^^ J ^^^^ s ^^ : . TheKussian Acceptance ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' .. . ' . 9 a Postscript 105 OPEN COUNCIL— T £ E 6 ? i T 1 ^ r / ' : ¦ Peace Parliament in Manchester .. 99 wwwit ^ iu The Rival Wizards . ; .... V 16 fSSS ^ loo PUBLIC AFFAIRS- The Misconduct cf the War Ill Births , Slarriag ^ , and Deaths .... 1 , 7 Amirt » g n ? Our Relations with America 107 The Gazette .......... ; . „ .. ' ....., 417 | h e ^ i ; :.:::::::::::::::::::::: JilSioSS .:::::::: ; : ! o s literature- commercial affairs-Continental ^ otea 101 X , ord Wensleydale anrl Life Peerages 10 s Summary 112 City Intelligence , Markets , Aduur ^ iviiisnrion iu ^ The Poor Shareholders 109 The JLad r in Waitine in the States 112 vertisementi , &c . 117

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2126/page/1/